GEORGE REID.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 17 March 1910, Page 2

GEORGE REID.

HE SPEAKS UP FOR AUSTRALIA, i 13Y BIiEOTMO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. ' Vlsll PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received Alarch 17, 8.20 a.m.) London, Alarch 16. Sir George Reid, in concluding his speech at the complimentai— banquet given by the Colonial Institute, said: •"There is an insinuation that Australia's loyalty is mixed up with the fiscal question, and depends on the Motherland's answer. This connection of these questions of preference and reciprocity is an unfounded slani der. (Cheers.) Until any new departure is based on the conviction that it embodies the advantage of strengthening the Motherland aud Australia alike, Australians scorn it, if it is at tho expense of the Alotherland." The Times hopes that tho remarks of Earl Crewe, who presided over the Reid banquet, foreshadows that the affairs of the Dominions are coming under the immediate cognisance of tho Premier of England.